lapse

Meanings

• a mistake resulting from inattention
• a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
  • "a lapse of three weeks between letters"
• a failure to maintain a higher state
• pass into a specified state or condition
• end, at least for a long time
  • "The correspondence lapsed"
• drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
• go back to bad behavior
• let slip
  • "He lapsed his membership"
• pass by
  • "three years elapsed"

Synonyms

backslide, backsliding, elapse, fall back, glide by, go along, go by, lapsing, oversight, pass, recidivate, regress, relapse, relapsing, retrogress, reversion, reverting, sink, slide by, slip away, slip by